Internet Chat laughter in Spanish?

Question

In English we tend to use: - **lol** = laughing out loud; - **rofl** = rolling on the floor laughing; - **lmao** = laughing my a** off; - **roflmao** = rolling on the floor laughing my a** off.These are just some of the forms of text laughter that I first encountered on ICQ/IRC back in the 90s / early 00s. Naturally we also have 'hah', 'haha', and 'bwahahahha' :)However, when talking to Spanish-speaking friends, aside from the regular 'jaja', I haven't found many other alternatives to express different levels of amusement. And it feels wrong to laugh sometimes when it's just something that's mildly amusing, for example.Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hola! Based on years of experience either emailing, texting or writing snail mail letters to Spanish-speakers, there doesn't seem to be the great variation of what we English-speakers do with the "LOL", "LMFAO", "ROFL" and so on. All I've seen and used is what you described: jajaja, jejeje or jijiji. The speaker may insert an emoji with varying degrees of laughter and tears, but I haven't seen anything other than that in texting language.